Strippers on film: battlers, showgirls and hustlers
- Written by Ari Mattes, Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia

In her landmark 1975 essay, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey argues classical Hollywood style is built upon the fetishisation of the female body.
Female characters are frequently photographed in wide, full body shots, constructed to please an imaginary male...